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FREIGHT RECORD.

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UNITED STATI-3s MARSHALL M. KIRKMAN,

FREIGHT- OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,881, dated September 4, 1888.

Application filed May 25), 1888. Serial No. 275,526. (No modell To all whom' it may concern:

Be it known that I MARSHALL M. Kinn- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evanston, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Freight-Records, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to make a system of freight-recordswhcreby at one operation there may be filled out all of the necessary blanks required to notify the consignes of the arrival of goods and the charges thereon and such other information as may be dcsired, the recciptwhich the railroad company takes from the eonsignee upon the delivery of the goods, the receipt which the railroad company gives, order upon the foreman of freighthouse where goods are in store, receipt of teamster, and such other matters as may enter into the transaction; and my invention consists of the features and details of construction, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l represents the plan View of a blank for the expense-bill which is signed by the railroad company and given the consignee upon payment of charges, Src.; and` Fig. 2, a plan View of another blank form, the receipt which the carrier takes upon the delivery of the goods. Both of these figures are made with the blank torn in two, asthe full length would be too great for continuous representation.

In making my improved system of freightrecords for railways, steamboats, and other common carriers Where goods are conveyed and charges collected I make a series of printed blanks, which are intended to be filled out by the same operation or Writing. One ofthese blanks, as shown in Fig. 1, may be an expensebill provided with proper headings and having blanks for the insertion of the name of the consignor, the consignes, the articles, and the charges on the same, with other particulars, and for the receipt for the said charges by the agent, so that the same, when properly filled out, shall form a complete expense-bill and receipt to the consignes. Another of these blanks, like that shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, is provided with similar headings and blanks, in which may be inserted the names of the consigner and the consignes, the articles and the charges, and the consgnees receipt, and such other matter as may be necessary for forming aco mplete record ofthe freight received from the company and the taking of the consignces receipt for the same.

Although I have only shown in the drawings a series of two blanks, others may he formed in a similar Way, with headings and spaces so placed on the blanks that when the name of the consigner and the consignee, 85o., shall be Written in the completed blank shall form an order upon the foreman of the freighthouse to deliver the goods in his possession to the consignes, or a notice to the consignee of the arrival of such goods. These blanks, after being so printed, may be bound in succession in the form of books or blocks or otherwise, as may be desired, so that a way-bill may come irst, then expense-bill, beneath that the receipt for goods, beneath that the order on the freight-house man and beneath that the notice to the consignee, and so on, the blanks in the differentforms and the headings of the columns coming immediately below the similar blanks and headings of the columns on the first form. It is not necessary that these blanks should be bound in precisely the order named, as they may be bound in any other order desired, my invention being that they shall be so arranged beneath one another that the columns, headings, and blanks shall coincide, so that the Writing which is afterward inserted may fall in its proper place in each blank. Although I have claimed these blanks as bound in book form, it is obvious that, if desired, they may be bound in blocks or in any other suitable manner.

There may be but a single expense-bill to the page 5 or they may be bound up similarly to the ordinary check-book used by banks, with three or four or more on a page, provided with snitable perforations for tearing out the same.

The method of using my improved system is as follows: Blanks having been printed and bound in series in a book, the ordinary carbonpaper is inserted between each of the pages, by which whatever is Written upon the first page will be transferred to each of the succeeding pages. The agent then Writes in the spaces of the first form the name of the consigner and consignes, the character of the articles and the charges upon the same, and other particulars. The matter so Written in being transferred by IOC) vplete expense-bill, which may be given to the signee, and the receipt for the goods, which is the action of the carbon-paper to each of the succeeding sheets, there will be formed a comconsignee as a receipt, an order on the freighthouse foreman, which is given to the' conretained by the company and is signed by the consignee when the goods are removed by him, and such other forms as it may be desirable to use.

Although I have called my invention an improved system of freight-records and have described it as such, it is not my intention to limit myself to this use alone, as it is Obvious that this is only one of the many uses to which my invention can be applied. For instance, the entire accounts of a railroad or other common carrier, which require the formation of a series of blanks differing in the printed matter, but similar in that to be'written in, maybe kept in this manner. So with l any other of the transactions of railroads, other common carriers, or commercial houses, the

pu rpose of my invention being to provide such a series of blanks so printed that when the same are filled up by Written matter they shall form two or more forms completein themselves, i

prising complete record sets of detachableA sheets having on one side printed matter and blank spaces in columns, each set comprising one or more detachable sheets and one permanent sheet, and all arranged so as to have the special printed matter and blank spaces in the columns thereof in alignment, so that the matter Written in the spaces on the top sheet of the set will be simultaneously transferred by means of interposed carbonsheets to its proper place on the other sheets of the set, substanlially as shown, and for the purpose described.

MARSHALL M. KIRKMAN. Witnesses:

CROPLEY G. PHILLIPS, GEORGE S. PAYsoN. 

